Room 38a

'St George and the Dragon' - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

I took an afternoon off this week to wander around Kensington… ok OK the real reason was I wanted to witness the big Whole Foods Market on the High Street. You can make your own peanut butter!! I felt like carrying on walking after exploring the delights of the organic chocolate bar aisle and unintentionally ended up outside the V&A.

I call this place my 2nd spiritual home (the 1st being Liberty), it's seriously one of my favourite places in London. A few years ago with a broken foot in cast, I took a visit and I got lost down a never ending corridor of iron gates. Interesting but painful, I had to keep sitting on the old lady benches for a breather. I digress, I've been so many times and I still know there are rooms I have yet to see.

I always check out room 38a, the photography room with temporary displays. There is a permanent collection in a bigger space on a upper floor. At the moment there is a display named 'Making it up' which has composed unnatural images that have been constructed by the photographer. Including the contemporary influencer Gregory Crewdson to early pioneers like Julia Margaret Cameron.

I particularly liked the beautiful image from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is more known as his pen name, Lewis Carroll. The posed scene straight from a child's imagination is adorable. if not a little creepy.